scientific papers memoir p g tait von andrews thomas (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Frontispiece (engraved portrait), lxii, 514 pp; 6 plates; text figs. Original cloth. Small tears at top & bottom of spine. Corners of covers worn. Very Good. This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition. Reprints 54 publications by Thomas Andrews (1813-1885; elected F.R.S., 1849). "Andrews was noted for his manipulative skill and ingenuity in solving practical problems; he constructed much of his own apparatus. . . . After some early work extending Schönbein's discoveries regarding passivity of metals, Andrews turned his attention to thermochemistry and, in a series of papers read in the period 1841-1848, gave details of experiments, many of them remarkably accurate, on heats of neutralization, heats of formation of water and other oxides and of metallic halides, and on the heat evolved when one metal replaces another in solutions. . . . Andrews subsequently turned his attention to the problem of the constitution of ozone. . . . Andrews is best known for his studies on the continuity of the gaseous and liquid states, and in particular for his discovery of the critical temperature of carbon dioxide in 1861. His researches formed the subject of the Bakerian lectures for 1869 and 1876; a further paper was published posthumously in 1887" (D.S.B. 1: 160-61). Partington, History of Chemistry, Vol. IV, pp. 609-610 (on Andrews's thermochemistry).